Icing consistencies

Royal Icing is a popular choice for cookie decoration because it dries hard, with a smooth and shiny finish. It can also be used for multiple other baking applications as it’s totally customizable. Types of Royal Icing Stiff Royal Icing is required when making flowers, leaves, ruffles, brush embroidery, and decorations that need to perfectly hold their shape. It can also be used for assembling gingerbread houses. If you cut through the icing with a knife, it will not melt back together. The…

Let’s talk icing consistency! 🎨 When it comes to writing on cookies, I use two different consistencies: a stiff one for outlining and fine details, and a...

Learn how to whip up this easy sugar cookie icing. Just 4 ingredients for the perfect consistency every time!

Mandy Edmunds on Instagram: "Do you want to have the most beautiful, smooth and shiny flooded sugar cookies? Use 15-second flood icing! Why should you use 15-second icing to flood your cookies? ✅Beautifully flat surface 🚫No drippy edges ❌No need to pipe an outer border 🕑Save time mixing just one consistency of icing 🩵 Perfectly flat surface for printing edible images Mix your icing and drizzle a little off your spatula. When the drizzle disappears within 15 seconds, it’s perfect for…

Best practices when writing with royal icing indlucing choosing font style, font size, icing consistency, piping tip/size, pipingpressure, piping technique.

Achieving the right royal icing consistencies is the hardest yet the most important part of cookie decorating. It's also quite difficult to describe in words how royal icing consistency should be. That's probably the main reason I've put off writing about it for so long. Nailing the correct royal icing consistency isn't an exact science. It's more of a "feel" and becoming more familiar with how royal icing behaves under different thicknesses.

Katherine’s Cookies on Instagram: "Royal icing transfers are a great way to elevate your decorating and add an impressive touch to your cookies (and cupcakes, cakes… anything you can think of!) even if you don’t have a projector or a lot of decorating experience. My beginner friendly Ultimate Halloween Royal Icing Transfer Bundle is in my Etsy shop now! It includes everything you need to know to create your own royal icing transfers including: -20 fun and unique Halloween designs in 5…

🫡 We all make mistakes but luckily there’s always an easy way to fix them when it comes to icing! Even as a seasoned cookier, I still make little mistakes here and there, like making my icing the...

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